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- From: ctjones@bnr.ca (Clifton Jones)
- Subject: Device Driver Questions
- Message-ID: <1992Nov05.222315.29019@bnr.ca>
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- Organization: BNR
- Date: Thu, 05 Nov 1992 22:23:15 GMT
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- I have installed Windows NT on my system and there seems to be problems with
- NT drivers installing themselves. Here is my current setup:
- Micronics 386-33 w/ 12MB RAM (PRT: =IRQ5)
- Future Domain TMC-1660 SCSI controller (IRQ14)
- Logitec Bus Mouse (IRQ2)
- Soundblaster 2.0 (IRQ7)
- Genoa 5400 SVGA (No IRQ)
-
- When I start NT, the printer never sends data. It seems to be waiting forever.
- (I think that its looking on IRQ7.)
- The soundblaster driver will not install on IRQ7 because it says its already
- in use. (Thats why I think that the print driver is on IRQ7).
- I have no mouse pointer so I have to use the keyboard for everything. The
- event viewer gives the following info on the mouse driver:
- EventID: 3
- Source: Mouclass
- Type: Error
- Category: None
- Desc: Driver or device is incorrectly configured
- Data bytes: 0000: 00 00 00 00 01 00 52 00
- 0008: 00 00 00 00 03 00 04 00
- 0010: 2a 4e 00 00 34 00 00 c0
- 0018: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
- 0020: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
-
- This setup is a result of soundblaster needing IRQ7 for historical
- compatibility. This setup works for SCO Unix, MSDOS 5.0, OS/2 2.0.
-
- What I want to know is why can't NT's drivers find the correct IRQ's
- (if that's the problem), and is there a way of manually setting the
- IRQ's. Windows 3.1 has resource variables that can be set for port
- addresses, etc? I have no documentation of these for NT as far as I
- know. Also, of what use is the "Data bytes" field in the Event Log?
- I would really appreciate any help that I could get. Thanks in advance.
- Please email me with your response, I don't get on the news server every
- day.
-
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- Clifton Jones
- Bell Northern Research
- Research Triangle Park, North Carolina
- Email: ctjones@bnr.ca
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